Date: 1760
"I was telling you, my dear friend (said she) for so I shall ever call you from this moment, your kindness having compleated the conquest which your beauty had before made of my heart, I was telling you, that I was going to visit a family this morning, where I promised myself the highest joy that...
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)
Date: 1760-7
"[T]here is a regular succession of ideas of one sort or other, which follow each other in train just like--A train of artillery? said my uncle Toby."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"Whether they were above my uncle Toby's reason,--or contrary to it,-- or that his brain was like wet tinder, and no spark could possibly take hold,--or that it was so full of saps, mines, blinds, curtins, and such military disqualifications to his seeing clearly into Prignitz and Scroderus's doc...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"But the heat gradually increasing, and in a few seconds more getting beyond the point of all sober pleasure, and then advancing with all speed into the regions of pain,--the soul of Phutatorius, together with all his ideas, his thoughts, his attention, his imagination, judgment, resolution, deli...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
"The image of Eloisa, never to be erased from my mind, shall be my shield, and render my soul invulnerable."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A woman's features may be so brightened by an occasion, that with the first glance she may make a conquest of the heart of a man
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Jerome was heartily grieved to discover his son's inclination for that Princess; and leaving him to his rest; promised in the morning to acquaint him with important reasons for conquering his passion."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Theodore had almost declared for her rival, made her determine to conquer her passion, and cede the beloved object to her friend."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"Edward could only win your Cities, but Philippa conquers Hearts"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"O, my Fanny, he cried, my most noble, my adorable Creature! what a Combat have you fought, what a Conquest have you gained, of Grace over Nature, of Virtue against Passion!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)